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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

引ひき継つぎ

hikitsugi

handover, taking over

Example sentences

  1. 新大臣しんだいじんは月曜日げつようびに職務しょくむの引継ひきつぎをした。

    The new minister took over the job on Monday.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. この引ひき継つぎは成功せいこうし、8年間継続ねんかんけいぞくして量産りょうさんされている。

    The handover was successful and a large volume of paintings were created continuously for eight years.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. この引ひき継つぎに対たいして「採算さいさんに乗のらない」と何社なんしゃからも断ことわられた経緯けいいがあったと言いわれる。

    It is said that many companies rejected this taking over saying, "It will be unprofitable," in the course of business negotiations.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 引継

  • 引pullOnインKunひく・ひける
  • 継inherit; succeedOnケイKunつぐ・まま-

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